50 Years of NLS Milestones

50 Years of NLS Milestones

50 Years of NLS Milestones

Spring 1964

Herb Parnes of Ohio State University’s Center for Human Resource Research writes a proposal to interview men approaching retirement age. This proposal is submitted at the request of Howard Rosen, Director of the Research Division of the Office of Manpower, Automation and Training in the U.S. Department of Labor, and leads to a contract for the NLS Older Men cohort being awarded to Ohio State University.

January, 1973

1978

The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) conducts household screening interviews for a new NLS cohort, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), comprising young men and women born in 1957-64. The cohort later becomes known as the NLSY79.

1978

1979

NORC interviews NLSY79 respondents for the first time; interviews continue on an annual basis.

1979

1979

Citations from NLS research total 500.

1979

1981

The final round of Young Men interviews is conducted by Census.

1981

1983

The final “regular” round of Older Men interviews is conducted by Census; see 1990.

1983

1983

Citations from NLS research total 1000.

1983

1986

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development sponsors interviews and assessments of the children of female NLSY79 respondents; this “Child Survey” continues every other year.

1986

1986

The Bureau of Labor Statistics begins funding the NLS program; previously, the program was funded by the Office of Manpower Policy, Evaluation, and Research followed by the Employment and Training Administration. All three agencies are housed within the U.S. Department of Labor.

1986

1990

A special reinterview of the Older Men, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, gathers data from 2,092 surviving respondents, 1,341 widows, and 865 other relatives of respondents.

1990

1991

Citations from NLS research total 2000.

1991

1993

For the first time, laptop computers are used to conduct all NLSY79 interviews via CAPI/CATI.

Ohio State University Center for Human Resource Research

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This site was created at the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at The Ohio State University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS). The NLS is a program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. CHRR has conducted the NLS since the program began in 1965, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau (from 1965 to 2003) and NORC at the University of Chicago (from 1978 to the present).